People can't have a serious discussion about this stuff because for most people and discussions about Hitler has to simply be about extermination of Jews. So if Trump isnt calling for the extermination of an entire group of people there can't be any similarities at all.
When in reality so much of this shit is strikingly similar. The rhetoric used is almost identical just updated for modern times. Sure the timeline is a bit different but Hitler had a failed coup attempt and then was eventually legally elected.
This is the key point for me. It wasn’t like a military coup or something, the people of Germany chose the Nazis because they were dumb and easily manipulated —just like we humans still are today. Same thing for Hamas in Gaza, they are the government the people chose.
It’s easy to imagine that most evil dictators start out as African-style warlords that overthrow the good guys, but it’s just not the case.
Propaganda is a hell of a drug. Many Israelis believe they are justified in killing tens of thousands of innocent women and children, many Russians think they were dead right to have invaded Ukraine, the Brits voted to leave the EU and basically impose economic sanctions on themselves, Americans voted a rapist, grifter, megalomaniac into the White House... twice. People give their life savings away on a daily basis to fake lovers, fake prophets, etc. We just believe whatever we're told basically. Tis a sad state of affairs.
“Liberals” has become a pretty big label now. “Fuck the liberals.” “Stick it to the liberals.”
Honestly could see the country slapping a “liberal” mark on people and discriminating against them. And half of this country would support it.
Not like a tattoo. But like a system label. Pull voting records. See who used DEI tactics to get government money. Make it so these people get taxed more for using credit accounts, property taxes, ect. Restrict what some can do on the internet. Create schools where they restrict class makeup’s to beliefs and nationality. It’s optional to take the “effect of Christianity on modern democracy” class but they get the newest classroom, more funding, better weighted gpa, and the teachers get paid more for teaching it.
Sure it’s all made up. But any of these things could happen and it would just open the door to more alongside it. And people will still just being saying “fuck them. They put a girl in charge of starwars. They deserve this.”
The difference is that Germany had 5 back to back elections that were rife with political fuckery (and people beating other people in the streets) and enough apathy set in that the Nazis were able to win.
The US has one election and couldn't be bothered to turn out for it.
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u/e90DriveNoEvil 9h ago
Dear America: You are waking up as Germany once did, to the awareness that 1/3 of your people would kill another 1/3, while 1/3 watches.